Advances in corporate finance and asset pricing / edited by L. Renneboog.

Festschrift for Piet Duffhues.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Corporate restructuring and governance, valuation and asset pricing / Luc Renneboog -- part 1. Corporate restructuring. Mergers and acquisitions in Europe / Marina Martynova and Luc Renneboog -- The performance of acquisitive companies / Kees Cools and Mindel van de Laar -- The announcement effects and long-run stock market performance of corporate spin-offs: international evidence / Chris Veld and Yulia Veld-Merkoulova -- The competitive challenge in banking / Arnoud Boot and Anjolein Schmeits -- Consolidation of the European banking sector: impact on innovation / Han Degryse, Steven Ongena and Maria Fabiana Penas -- part 2. Corporate governance. Transatlantic corporate governance reform / Joseph McCahery and Arman Khachaturyan -- The role of self-regulation in corporate governance: evidence and implications from the Netherlands / Abe de Jong [and others] -- Shareholder lock-in contracts: share price and trading volume effects at the lock-in expiry / Peter-Paul Angenendt, Marc Goergen and Luc Renneboog -- The grant and exercise of stock options in IPO firms: evidence from the Netherlands / Tjalling van der Goot, Gerard Mertens and Peter Roosenboom -- Institutions, corporate governance and firm performance / Jos Grazell -- part 3. Capital structure and valuation. Why do companies issue convertible bonds? A review of the theory and empirical evidence / Igor Loncarski, Jenke ter Horst and Chris Veld -- The financing of Dutch firms: a historical perspective / Abe de Jong and Ailsa Röell -- Corporate financing in the Netherlands / Rezaul Kabir -- Syndicated loans: developments, characteristics and benefits / Ger van Roij -- The bank's choice of financing and the correlation structure of loan returns: loans sales versus equity / Vasso Ioannidou and Yiannos Pierides -- Shareholder value and growth in sales and earnings / Luc Soenen -- part 4. Asset pricing and monetary economics. The term structure of interest rates: an overview / Peter de Goeij -- Incorporating estimation risk in portfolio choice / Jenke ter Horst, Frans de Roon and Bas Werker -- A risk measure for retail investment products / Theo Nijman and Bas Werker -- Understanding and exploiting momentum in stock returns / Juan Carlos Rodriquez and Alessandro Sbuelz -- Relating risks to asset types: a new challenge for central banks / Jacques Sijben.